Poor mental health among Taiwanese people experiencing the public debates on and referendums for same-sex marriage: A Facebook online survey

This essay discusses Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill in Nigeria, with a focus on the contribution of the Nigerian Catholic Church to the law. Though the Catholic Church in Nigeria did not actively contribute towards the public debates about homosexuality that resulted into the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Bill it nevertheless welcomed the bill. However, the official teachings of the Catholic Church and elucidations from the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria could potentially contribute to creating an inclusive society. In what way can we potentially utilize the principles of Catholic Social Teaching to make room for an inclusion of homosexual persons in the life of the church and in society?

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The Implications of Religious Liberty

Impacts of Faith-Based Decision Making on the Individual-Level Legislative Process - Advances in Public Policy and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-2388-8.ch006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 143-162

Keyword(s):

Religious Freedom ◽

Religious Liberty ◽

The Political ◽

Marriage Equality ◽

Same Sex ◽

Protection Measures ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Public Discussion ◽

The Public ◽

Faith Based

The political terrain surrounding the legalization of same-sex marriage and the need to accommodate individual's faith based objections have been part of the public discussion since the passage of initial marriage equality statutes. These exemptions played an important part in the bill's passage and have gone largely unquestioned from proponents of marriage equality. This chapter discusses the heightened lawmaking efforts by opponents insisting on broad protection measures for religious claims based on opposition directed towards homosexuality. This Chapter discusses the resulting tension between religious freedom and marriage equality.

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Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health:

Marriage and Health ◽

10.2307/j.ctv128fqjw.20 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 216-228

Author(s):

SARA MERNITZ ◽

AMANDA POLLITT ◽

DEBRA UMBERSON

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage

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The future is queer kids: Queering the homonormative temporalities of same-sex marriage

Politics ◽

10.1177/0263395719872595 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 265-280

Author(s):

Callum Stewart

Keyword(s):

Spatial Relations ◽

Same Sex ◽

Temporal Perspective ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

The Public ◽

The Future ◽

And Gender

Same-sex marriage is emblematic of a crisis of vision in lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-binary, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) politics, according to some queer theorists. Through the concept of homonormativity, Duggan insightfully criticizes same-sex marriage politics as spatially privatizing and depoliticizing queer difference. Brown argues, however, that Duggan herself reifies homonormativity. He calls for theorists to imagine the queer potential in non-fixed spatial relations. Given Duggan and Brown’s focus on spatiality, this article approaches queer imaginations beyond homonormativity from a temporal perspective: I ask what transformational potential same-sex marriage holds to queer heteronormative and homonormative temporalities. I argue that same-sex marriage may not only queer the public/private dichotomy, but also subvert the heteronormative temporality of straight time. Straight time produces identities, spaces, and times as fixed, pre-political, and timeless, and is constructed against queer time in which identities, spaces, and times are non-fixed, political, and sociohistorically constructed. By theorizing straight/queer time as politically produced through the reproductive relation between adulthood and Childhood, I repoliticize the temporalities of homonormative and queer imaginaries and recognize children as queer citizens of a queer future. Same-sex marriage may therefore produce two previously untheorized images of queer potential: the Child queered by their parents, and the Child queered by their sexuality.

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Beliefs and Stereotypes About LGBT People

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1240 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Gary R. Hicks

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Public Attitudes ◽

Supreme Court Decision ◽

The United States ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

The Public ◽

The World ◽

Lgbt People ◽

Lgbt Individuals

The public’s perception of, beliefs about, and interest in LGBT individuals and the issues impacting them has long had great significance to the community’s social, political, and legal progress. The last decade has seen monumental changes in public attitudes about LGBT people and the laws that affect them in the United States and around the world. Much of this change has been positive, including the landmark Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage. In some parts of the world—even those that have witnessed great strides for LGBT equality—there have also been signs of a backlash against the community’s newfound rights and visibility in society. Stereotypes of LGBT individuals, mostly negative, have been responsible for much of this reaction, as well as their historically negative view in by the public. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the mass media has played a major role in creating and perpetuating these stereotypes.

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Direct Democracy and LGBT Politics

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1205 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel C. Lewis

Keyword(s):

Direct Democracy ◽

Policy Outcomes ◽

Same Sex ◽

Lgbt Rights ◽

Direct Role ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

The Public ◽

Ballot Measures ◽

Lgbt Politics ◽

Lgbt Community

While many landmark policies affecting LGBT rights have been determined by legislatures and courts, voters have also often played a more direct role in LGBT politics through direct democracy institutions, such as the initiative and referendum. For example, in 2008 California voters approved Proposition 8, barring same-sex marriage in the state and setting the stage for a key federal court decision in Hollingsworth v. Perry (2013). This followed on the heels of 31 ballot measures to ban same-sex marriage in the previous decade. Direct democracy has also been employed frequently to consider a range of other important issues relevant to the LGBT community, including bans on same-sex couple adoptions, nondiscrimination policies, education policies, and employment benefits. Further, as issues addressing transgender right have emerged on the political landscape, local referendums have addressed public accommodation discrimination, including so-called “bathroom bills,” like the high-profile Houston referendum in 2014. Most of these prominent direct democracy contests have resulted in negative outcomes for the LGBT community, spurring concerns about subjecting the rights of marginalized groups to a popular vote. However, some ballot measures, such as Washington’s 2012 vote to legalize same-sex marriage, have expanded or protected LGBT rights. Yet the effects of direct democracy institutions extend beyond the direct policy outcomes of elections and have been shown to shape the decision-making of elected officials as well. Still, studies of both the direct and indirect effects of direct democracy on LGBT rights reveal mixed results that are contingent upon public attitudes and how the issues are framed. When the public is supportive of LGBT rights and views them through a civil right frame, direct democracy has been used to expand and protect these rights. However, when the public views the LGBT community more negatively and views the issues through a morality or safety lens, LGBT rights are put at risk by direct democracy. As such, direct democracy institutions function as a double-edged sword for the LGBT community, simultaneously offering an opportunity to elevate LGBT rights issues onto the public agenda with a civil rights frame and posing a threat to the community when these issues are viewed in a more hostile manner.

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Mental Disorder Symptoms Among Nurses in Canada

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/0844562120961894 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 084456212096189

Author(s):

Andrea M. Stelnicki ◽

R. Nicholas Carleton

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorder ◽

Online Survey ◽

Poor Mental Health ◽

Demographic Groups ◽

Cumulative Stress ◽

Canadian Population ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Healthcare Administrators ◽

Clinically Significant

Background Nurses face regular exposures to potentially psychologically traumatic events as part of their occupational responsibilities. Cumulative stress due to repeated exposure to such events is associated with poor mental health and an increased risk of developing clinically significant symptoms consistent with some mental disorders. Purpose The current study was designed to estimate rates of mental disorder symptoms among nurses in Canada and identify demographic characteristics that are associated with increased risk for mental disorder symptoms. Method An online survey was conducted with Canadian nurses in both English and French. Participants were recruited largely through the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) member unions, non-CFNU member unions, and social media. The survey assessed current mental disorder symptoms using well-validated screening measures. Results A total of 4267 participants (93.8% women) completed the survey. Almost half of participants screened positive for a mental disorder (i.e., 47.9%). No gender differences emerged. Significant differences in proportions of positive screens based on each measure were found across demographic groups (e.g., age, province of residence, type of nurse). Conclusions The rate of positive screens appears much higher than mental disorder prevalence rates in the general Canadian population, but there were important methodological differences. The current results provide potentially important information to support researchers and healthcare administrators to investigate possible ways to mitigate and manage mental health in nursing workplaces.

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Legislating for Same-Sex Marriage: Sophistical Effectiveness in Australian Law

Issues in Legal Scholarship ◽

10.1515/ils-2016-0260 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary Lilienthal

Keyword(s):

Canon Law ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Same Sex ◽

Marriage Law ◽

Ancient Greek ◽

Public Mind ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

The Public ◽

The Subject ◽

Mind Argument

AbstractThis paper by-passes the various public tropes, such as “marriage equality”, and concentrates on determining whether or not a same-sex marriage law would be sophistically effective in Australia. It revives the ancient Greek sophistical rhetorical skill of proposing a law, and applies it as a critical context to the topic of legislating for same-sex marriage. The objective is to assess whether or not a same-sex marriage law will be effective in its legislative objects. It proposes to discuss whether the parliament could introduce such a law so that the law’s objects were achieved effectively in the public mind. Argument will try to show that introducing a law to create same-sex marriage would fail because of subsisting priestly legislation on the subject of marriage. Its two hypotheses are that the canon law and other English priestly legislation restrict the scope of marriage regulation, and marriage could not be re-defined to cover same-sex marriage. Sections of the paper examining the law historically employ the historiographical method of identifying underlying norms, the effect of which is occasional reverse chronologies. The article’s conclusion will assert that a statute for legal and duly registered same-sex marriage likely would be, according to sophistical rhetorical reasoning, a fiction misrepresenting the truth of the subsisting legal and social institutions of marriage.

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Social Media and Marriage Equality in Australia: The Media Roles in the Public Sphere and the Agenda-Setting

Insight - News Media ◽

10.18282/inm.v3i1.335 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Yuhanyin Ma

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Sphere ◽

Agenda Setting ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Marriage Equality ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

The Public ◽

The Government ◽

The Public Sphere

<p align="justify">Marriage equality or the equal status of same-sex marriage has undergone a rather tough road in Australia, involving diverging opinions in parties at the state and federal levels and constitutional amendments. It appears that people in power set the agenda on the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, it cannot be denied that social media played an almost decisive role in this process because it enabled the gathering of massive public opinion to pressure the government to make changes. To be specific, social media or social networking sites offered platforms for people concerned to share reports about the progress of foreign countries in legalizing same-sex marriage, to express their opinions and to launch campaigns in support of their beliefs. This essay explores the role that social media played in the legalization of marriage equality movement in Australia from the perspectives of the public sphere theory and the agenda-setting theory.</p>

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Strange Bedfellows: How an Anticipatory Countermovement Brought Same‐Sex Marriage into the Public Arena

Law & Social Inquiry ◽

10.1111/lsi.12069 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 39 (02) ◽

pp. 449-473 ◽

Cited By ~ 35

Author(s):

Michael C. Dorf ◽

Sidney Tarrow

Keyword(s):

Social Movement ◽

Social Movement Organizations ◽

Marriage Equality ◽

Same Sex ◽

Same Sex Marriage ◽

Political Actors ◽

The Public ◽

Triangular Relationship ◽

Movement Organizations ◽

Lgbt Movement

Since the 1980s, social movement scholars have investigated the dynamic of movement/countermovement interaction. Most of these studies posit movements as initiators, with countermovements reacting to their challenges. Yet sometimes a movement supports an agenda in response to a countermovement that engages in what we call “anticipatory countermobilization.” We interviewed ten leading LGBT activists to explore the hypothesis that the LGBT movement was brought to the fight for marriage equality by the anticipatory countermobilization of social conservatives who opposed same‐sex marriage before there was a realistic prospect that it would be recognized by the courts or political actors. Our findings reinforce the existing scholarship, but also go beyond it in emphasizing a triangular relationship among social movement organizations, countermovement organizations, and grassroots supporters of same‐sex marriage. More broadly, the evidence suggests the need for a more reciprocal understanding of the relations among movements, countermovements, and sociolegal change.

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